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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Tim Frick: Twelve Ways to Balance Work and Writing, #5
In the spirit of the holiday season (tomorrow being New Year’s Day and all), I am posting not one but two posts today. Here’s the second: 5. Outlining. For me, free writing is an important step to get the creative juices flowing … Continue reading
Tim Frick: Twelve Ways to Balance Work and Writing, #4
In the spirit of the holiday season (tomorrow being New Year’s Day and all), I am posting not one but two posts today. 4. Lifting. So what does going to the gym have to do with writing? Everything, in my … Continue reading
Tim Frick: Twelve Ways to Balance Work and Writing, #3
Post number three of the ongoing life/work/writing balance series. 3. Spacing. Where do you write best? I like to think that I can write at home or at the office, but truth is, I can’t. I’m much better when I’m … Continue reading
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Tim Frick: Twelve Ways to Balance Work and Writing, #2
So here’s post number two of twelve on ways to balance work and writing: 2. Timing. Figure out when your mind is at its peak and try at all costs to write then. This sounds like a no-brainer but it … Continue reading
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Loren Hopkins: Are You a Hack?
According to Robert McKee, a hack is someone who instead of looking inward, when deciding what to write, looks at the market and asks, “What’s selling right now?” Many Hollywood productions justify his disdain for writing in this manner. The studios … Continue reading
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Tim Frick: Twelve Ways to Balance Work and Writing
The following post from Tim Frick comes in twelve — yes, you heard right, people — twelve parts. Check in every day to get a new installment. And make sure you comment. Fo reals. The serial is alive and well. … Continue reading
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Tim Frick: Your Writer’s Support Group
I have been a card-carrying member of StoryStudio Chicago’s advanced fiction writing workshop for a few years now and during that time have probably amassed several hundred thousand words of prose. Whether or not those words will amount to anything … Continue reading
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In the Spirit of This Here Holiday Season
Nothing says Christmas time like horror movies. Sure, I’ll watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special this season, but there’s something so appropiate, so right, about visiting the fantasy realms of spook country on celluloid. This weekend I saw “Let the … Continue reading
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The Fury of My Thundersnow
There’s a lot to be pissed off about. The crashing economy. Black ice. Morons on the bus. The malaise of the earth, and man’s invasive habits. Crocs. The rising price of food. Rod Blagojevich’s smugness. Blagojevich’s smug hair helmet. You … Continue reading
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Loren Hopkins: Write Here, Write Now
“You lack discipline!” Arnie in Kindergarten Cop Worms, and other distinguished creatures of the earth, welcome to the first day of the rest of your lives. That’s what you tell yourself every time you wake up. Yesterday’s gone for good, … Continue reading
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